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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026)

1 points by jon_north ↗ HN
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.

Please only post if you are looking to hire a freelancer or work as one. Small (2-5 person) agencies are fine, but recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here.

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bradly
SEEKING WORK

  Location: San Diego, California / Lopez Island, Washington

  Remote: Preferred, but I do not mind travel.

  Technologies/skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git, Turbo/Stimulus, TailwindCSS/TailwindUI, AWS, Kamal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Unix, APIs, people

  Resume/CV: Ruby on Rails since 2006 at Shopify, Apple, Intuit and a bunch of startups as well.

  Email: bradly@rails247.com
I really enjoy making web sites. I still type a lot of my own code and all of my own emails and code reviews. Not sure if that is a pro or con.
MongooseStudios
SEEKING WORK | USA | Austin, TX or Remote

  Technologies: Go(Golang), Python, Docker, Dart/Flutter, Jenkins, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, I've also done work with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  Contact Info: https://mongoose-studios.com
I'm an oldschool "let's figure it out and get it done" nerd. I can wear one hat, or many, depending on what's needed
ChrisLuhrsDesig
SEEKING WORK | USA | Remote only

Technologies: React Native, Expo, TypeScript, React, Next.js

Portfolio: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thriftvault-scan-to-flip/id677... | thriftvaultapp.com

I design and build iOS apps solo. ThriftVault is mine start to finish, from idea to App Store launch. Best fit is a half built app that needs to ship, or a team with devs and no designer. I don't do backend, databases, or Android.

Contact: chrisluhrsdesign@gmail.com

jon_north
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer

I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total years of software development experience. I learn new things extremely quickly. AWS preferred but not required (I hold a variety of certs, available here: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8)

Concrete examples:

* built the primary streaming data architecture for realtime game player tracking information (all games, 50ms SLA) and game stats for one of the top 3 US sports leagues using Redpanda/Kafka on Azure+Terraform, and implemented its developer portal using Gravitee to provide first class streaming API support and monetization. Also built, deployed and maintained their ask-a-question-get-a-true-answer AI bot to expose 20+ years of stats to natural language fan questions! (this was the third of currently four times I’ve built similar architectures for different companies)

* Implemented a vector DB for one of the leading AI image hallucination platforms (millions of users) to provide an image similarity service.

* replatformed dozens of complex quant jobs to AWS Lambda for a startup hedge fund (~$1B AUM), vastly improving QoS and maintenance cost. Line 1 to platform-in-prod time 3 months, including refactoring for fit. This was mission critical cannot-fail stuff and required extensive proof of correctness.

* built a framework to collapse dozens of singleton ETL programs into one config-driven, simple C# application performing the same functionality at ~80% reduction in maintenance cost year over year.

You will like working with me because I:

  * hold your goals as my priorities
  * communicate verbosely yet synthesize well
  * my rates are reasonable in exchange for the value I deliver
  * I guarantee I will get the job done
Contact: jon.north@adiuvat-consulting.com More: www.adiuvat-consulting.com

Technologies: Python, C/C#/C++, SQL, NoSQL, Go, Golang, Docker, Git, Linux/Windows, Bash, Kafka, Redpanda, PySpark, Spark, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, SAP HANA, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2

edimaudo
SEEKING WORK Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes

Skillset: Data Analytics, Optimization, business operations, front-end

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, SQL, VBA, R, GCP

Résumé/CV: Can provide on request

Email: edimaudo at gmail

Github: https://github.com/edimaudo

mjgs
SEEKING WORK, Europe / Asia, remote work OK, I am very flexible with working hours and can accommodate most time zones, experienced remote worker. Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: NodeJS, Typescript, Perl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama.

Résumé/CV: On request via email

Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/system tools, workflow automation integrations, and NodeJS web development.

10+ years working in IT, experienced delivering large projects for Fortune 500 companies internationally, and working remotely.

Most recently:

- Highly programable template rendering CLI tools.

- An open core, provider agnostic publishing server software.

- A Typescript OAuth2.0 REST API, with Typescript+React frontend.

- Programming with LLMs and devcontainers.

About me: https://markjgsmith.com/about

Portfolio: https://markjgsmith.com/portfolio

Recommendations: https://markjgsmith.com/recommendations

Email: markjgsmith@gmail.com

OtmaneBenazzou
SEEKING WORK Location: France

Remote: Remote only

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB, AWS/GCP. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, non-profit, healthcare, education...)